Ajibel: Dont share your dreams or listen to realistic people who look before they leap and follow the news bulletin lamenting on the challenges to be faced by tech start-ups and in a way discouraging you from attempting.
Why?
These sets of folks have all the current stats on why you wouldn't succeed with your start-up ranging from PHCN issues to internet cost down to poverty. You are better off playing ping pong than reading articles of the realists.

-Pythonian.py

aitoehigie:

Or better still, keep dreaming.

Luka316:
believing in your self is always the ultimate

GideonG: I can never open and read a pessimistic article! I feed my brain with nothing but optimism. I don't wanna know the failures because I don't believe in failure, failures are just temporary defeats. They only thing I know is that I am going to be hugely successful! By the special grace of God.

curiouslad: As optimistic as the thread sounds, it fails to address the very issues(cogent) raised on the other Thread

Ajibel: The best way to know if your start-up wouldn't succeed is by developing and pushing it to the public.
That way you'd understand the market, get more exposed to the demands of owning an online company, learn a lot from what you've developed and get to meet people who'd advice u better.

Ajibel: Buh when you have an idea and can't develop it cuz of the reasons someone has given, how can u determine if your start-up wouldn't actually fail.
If we are to agree with ALL the points pushed forward in the other thread, then ALMOST everyone having an idea should already have in mind that his start-up will fail.

Ajibel: Dont share your dreams or listen to realistic people who look before they leap and follow the news bulletin lamenting on the challenges to be faced by tech start-ups and in a way discouraging you from attempting.
Why?
These sets of folks have all the current stats on why you wouldn't succeed with your start-up ranging from PHCN issues to internet cost down to poverty. You are better off playing ping pong than reading articles of the realists.

Ajibel:
In life, you CANNOT be realistic at all times

aitoehigie: Curiouslad is a man after my own heart, I.e. if you are a male. You read and analyzed everything unlike Ajibel.

curiouslad:
Good Point.

THANKS


*Your startup is a solution to a “WANT” and not a “NEED”.
*Your startup is a clone of some popular 1st world website or application

AND WHAT IS WRONG WITH CLONING A 1st WORLD WEB APP IF IT DOESNT EXIST IN AFRICA...EbAY and AMAZON WERE POPULAR ALREADY YET HAD LITTLE PENETRATION IN NIGERIA MAKING THE FOUNDERS OF KONGA n JUMIA n IROKING etc GO A STEP FORWARD IN CREATING SIMILAR SITES FOR NIGERIANS!!! IF THEY WERE TO GO BY THE "CLONING BullShit", THEY WOULDNT HAVE COME UP WITH SUCH


*Your startup will require loads and loads of traffic
(very valid in my opinion,the internet adoption in nigeria is LOW. Heck even nairaland doesn't have up to a million users)

SO IN OTHER WORDS, WE THAT HAVE IDEAS SHOULD GO SIT OUR _FUCKING _ASS SOMEWHERE JEJE OR WAIT, CROSS ARMS n LEGS TILL INTERNET PENETRATION IS HIGH?! HECK, WHO SAYS EVERY NIGERIAN WITH AN INTERNET START-UP DREAM ONLY HAS THE NIGERIAN MARKET IN MIND TO CONQUER

*Reading too much of Techcrunch
(Techcrunch operates on a different terrain)

TECHCRUNCH IS THERE TO SERVE TO MOTIVATE FOLKS WHO WANNA READ SOMETHING THAT CAN INSPIRE THEM OR SEE IF THEY CAN STEAL AN IDEA THAT HAD
BEEN DEVELOPED FOR THE AFRICAN MARKET. I DONT VISIT TECHCRUNCH FREQUENTLY btw


No where did he tell you not to execute your idea nor did he mention the bolded below!

YOU ARE THE ONE WHO BROUGHT HIS ARTICLE INTO THIS THREAD. THIS THREAD WASNT CREATED AS A DIRECT RESPONSE TO HIS, I GENERALISED.. ELSE I'D HAVE JUST REPLIED HIM ON HIS THREAD. I COMMENTED ON HIS YABA-RELATED THREAD, I DIDNT CREATE AN ATTENTION SEEKING THREAD LIKE THIS... THEREFORE MY THREAD ISNT A PERSONAL (ONE-ON-ONE) ATTACK WITH THE WRITER I'VE READ SIMILAR ARTICLES TO HIS. HE ISNT THE FIRST TO COME UP WITH SUCH


Seriously?

YES!!! SERIOUSLY AND THATS ONE OF MY PHILOSOPHY IN LIFE, HECK I'M ALSO AN ONLINE PHILOSOPHY STUDENT. SO, I DONT EXPECT YOU TO AGREE

Abdul hakeem: Yeah, Sure!!

Known_pal: Should we develop on what we are being taught in school or develop ours I mean the language I've been learning personally.

mrnestyy1985:

If i understood you enough. Then the answer to your question lies on this basic facts in ICT

The things that you learn during the first year of your studies become irrelevant/out of fashion by the time you get to your last year. Nigerian educational institutions are even worst in this case. So rather than developing what is no longer in fashion, why not develop trendy ideas.

Known_pal:

Yeah..I can see sense in that.. how can I keep school stuffs and also learning personally privately..